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The two shopping areas are vastly different—the first, obvious difference is that Copley Place and the Prudential Center are indoor shopping malls, and Newbury Street is an outdoor street lined with individual shops. That being said, the traffic…

My sketches of the Prudential Center Mall and Newbury Street were stills of sections of each area. For the Prudential Center Mall, I chose to sketch a small section of the large and elaborate mall. The section I chose felt to me like the most…

One feature of Copley Place that I found interesting was the instinct to mirror the layout of outdoor places. The signs that functioned almost as outdoor directional signs, as well as the fact that seating areas within the mall almost mirrored the…

Although Newbury Street and Copley Center/Prudential Mall are very different shopping settings, they surprisingly share very similar characteristics. Copley Center and the Prudential Mall are indoor shopping malls with an emphasis on open space and…

I am confident I know the purpose of Newbury St as of today: it is a shopping district, targeted toward affluent people. But it was not its only use historically—I walked by the old American Academy of Arts and Sciences building dedicated to…

What’s fascinating about the Prudential Center and Copley Square malls is the way in which they both seek to simultaneously evoke the covered shopping street and, more complicatedly, the dynamics of a small market town. In the first case, the peaked…

My map of Newbury Street is actually a combination of multiple segments of Newbury: the image of the street and walkways depict the segment between Gloucester and Dartmouth, where the storefronts, which are former residential spaces turned…

Examining these two different commercial spaces was very interesting because it became evident how they were trying to imitate one another, but also how different they still were. To start, I went to the Prudential/Copley Malls, and I noticed that…

Upon visiting both Copley Place/Prudential Center Mall and Newbury Street, I was surprised to find how each attempted to mimic certain characteristics of each other. The Copley Place and Prudential Center Malls are large, enclosed, shopping centers.…

When taking the elevator up from the ground floor to the main entrance of the Prudential center Shopping mall, you begin in a glass ceiling hallway that “begins” your journey throughout the mall.

While traveling through the mall, the experience…